FRANCO RECOGNISED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 January 1939, Page 10

FRANCO RECOGNISED

BY CZECHOSLOVAKIAN GOVERN- 1 ME NT j (Received 28th January, 1.40 p.m.) PRAGUE, 27th January. It is officially announced that the Government is recognising General Franco and breaking off relations with the Republicans. BOMBING OF REFUGEES LONDON, 27th January. ! Reuter’s Perpignan correspondent states that 3000 international volunteers fought for the republicans. He ■ asserts that while the volunteers were i waiting to entrain for France at Car- i dedeu station, 23 miles north of Barce- • lona, nationalist warplanes bombed the town, killing and wounding 800. He adds that the majority of the volunteers were Czech, German, Italian and other anti-Fascists who are unable to return to their own countries. Two hundred of them married Spanish wives, who are accompanying them, though many were killed in the raid. The survivors flew to France. Refugees report intense air bombing by the nationalists over the small territory left to the republicans in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees and allege that hundreds were killed in the refugee-packed streets of the town of Grandollers by Italian and German machine-gunning which is specially intense on the coast road, along which the refugees are streaming.